UN resolution, more worrisome than hopeful

The UN human rights council has approved a resolution on the Israeli atrocities in Gaza in 2014 taking into account a report by its fact finding committee. The resolution and the report that substantiates its terms both inspire hope and incite concerns.

They inspire hope as it puts the spotlight after decades on the Israeli atrocities drawing positive votes even from the European states which saw it no longer safe to keep silence over the regime’s crimes.

Another ray of hope is that in the past Israel used to escape scot free following similar reports while this time its record was pegged with a resolution that would help prosecute the regime. Nevertheless, the European states were prompted to approve the resolution by the need to have a lever of pressure against the Zionist regime in the implementation f two-state offer for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

They however incite worries as they treat both the invader and the defender in the war on Gaza alike by branding Hamas a war criminal over its defensive rocket firing into Israeli-occupied territories. Israel may have not end its harsh aerial attacks against Gaza if Hamas had not exercised rocket firing into Israel.

The resolution is also worrisome as it may turn into a trigger for stripping the anti-Israeli resistance groups from their right of return. The Fatah party would very likely have been encouraged to dissolve the national unity government and form a Fatah-only government by the resolution that would offer it a lever against Hamas.

The UN resolution thus is more worrisome than hopeful as it leaves little hope on the Palestinian side in Gaza about putting on dock the perpetrators of the war.